Results tagged “hacking”

• Probe into collective air ticket price hike urged [China Daily] “Chinese consumer-right groups and law scholars Friday urged authorities to investigate into a collective price hikes by major airlines, which they suspected to be a violation of the Anti-monopoly Law. The Beijing Consumers Association, the Beijing Consumer Protection Law Society, the Beijing society on industry and business administration and the civil and commercial laws research center under the Beijing-based Renmin University expressed their concern over the controversial price hikes in a joint statement. "The pricing mechanism agreed by domestic airliners has led to an average rise of 10 percent in price of air tickets."

Hot off the press: a CNN-affiliated website The Sports Network (also http://sport.si.cnn.com) has just been hacked by a group called HackCNN, and this was the message placed by the hackers on the website:

We are not against the western people, but against the prejudice from the western society.Since its founding a few weeks ago, the website has received a huge number of hits and has been featured in China Daily (under the headline "CNN: What's wrong with you?"). The reasons for the hacking remain unclear but those behind the website (reportedly university students) have apparently enlisted the help of Sohu to help them track down those responsible.